The Takedown

HI.  I’m MATT TIMMS. I do Takedowns in all parts of the US, but am based in Brooklyn! Tragically, sometimes NYers miss Matt Timms’ Takedown local events and are like: “NO! Whoah whoah whoah I don’t get it!?  I’m all about what’s excellent?! I’m all about what’s happening?!  How did I miss on this most awesome once in a lifetime thing??? I could have been eating a actual-ton of meatballs/mac-n-cheeze/fondue/cookies/whatever else, but I MISSED OUT. ”

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These balls shall taste of wonder. Your infantile testicle japes are of little use in the snakepit, fools.  Or do you not want to eat the legion of meatballs on offer- January 27, 2PM at The Bell House!!!? I’m sorry, I thought you were cool. Brooklyn Meatball Takedown!!!!

Care to graze on a meat-ton of gorgeous  local meatballs?  $15 TICKETS at The Bell House!!!

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Scary poster by Matthew Langland

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Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

Oh my cookies. Thy wrath is so infernal!!!!

photo by Robert Wolcheck, Brooklyn Exposed

FACT: For your information and for trivia purpose or a conversation starter, DID YOU KNOW? if you took all the cookies at the takedown and stacked them in a pile, they would go into the outer space! That is actually not true, but what if!!??? It did SEEM like a lot of cookies, especially if you ate all thirty and also the free egg nog because in the holiday season you will be forced over and over to be deeply irresponsible at parties. January is always a time of regret and exercise but December is the best!

FACT: My (matt timms in case you don’t know me) birthday is december 29. !!!!!

FACT: Guys- the Bell House is awesome- but you already knew that. Get there for all the funnest shows. THANK YOU to Bulleit Bourbon for all the fun drinkz- and the brilliant prizes.

Photo by Robert Wolcheck, Brooklyn Exposed - GRAND PRIZE WINNER SUSAN PALMER!

Pics up at Brooklyn Exposed!  and Serious Eats! and LocalBozo!

I heart this takedown scene you guys. It brings the best people in the world together. AWESOME JOB, COOKIE COOKS!!!

So here’s the people who won, the people who played, and I can’t stop farting from the general excitement of all of this. Smashtastical!!!!

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ALL 30 COMPETITOR SPOTS FILLED – Email me to get on wait list, or my mailing list, so you never miss another call for cooks!  It fills up fast in NYC!!!  BUT COME TO EAT EAT EAT!!!! Tickets up HERE!!!!!  A mere $15!!!!

Hail Brooklyn Cookie Takedown most on high!!!! Hail!!!! Hail!!!! Judge the worthiness of 30 home-baked Brooklyn cookies!  Chug FREE Bulleit Bourbon egg nog!!!  December 16 2PM at The Bell House!!!!!!!!

Oo remember last year how you ate cookies to save the earth from annihilation?  This year, eat cookies and pray for its annihilation!!! These cookies are going to be that good!!!

TICKETS HERE!!!!

This creepaholic sickness of a poster is by the very perfect Luke Ramsey!!!

And now we pray:

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Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

Oh boy oh boy oh boy I am so sorry for you if you missed the Chicago Avocado Takedown at the Chicago Food Film Festival!!! BECAUSE SO FUN!!!!!!  I’m really happy to be a part of this epic fest, wherein guests watch a bunch of food movies, and taste the foods they view!!!!  In their seats!  It’s awesome!!!!

All the pics up at Avocado From Mexico’s Flickr Page!!!

Thanks so much to Chicago’s brilliant home cooks!  They brainstunk a million sart and different recipes, and presented avocados 15 ways!  Thank you to Kendall College, and all their staff, for hosting the fines avocado event of forever…

(the winner! an actual Avo Margarita!!)

Here, after THE JUMP is all the winners and their recipes!!! Continue reading →

10 years of America’s #1 pot of importance. I said it before, and I’ll say it again:  Chefs are psychopaths, and you can look it up. Stay. Away. On the other hand, home cooks are sweet and cool, and  you can trust them. You should party with them, because they are never stinkazoidical.  Let’s turn off the TV and ask: who’s really actually more awesome? Perfect home chili freaks, or some guaranteed-totally-awful person on the Food Channel?

Chili Takedowns have morphed into bacon, cookie, salsa, jerky, mac and cheeze, curry, avocado, fondue, tofu, lamb Takedowns- but the Chili TD has always been GOD OF SEX for you.  I’d write more, but I’m numb with love.  Also jetlagged, and I think my brain is smaller tonight… doy!

Pics up at SERIOUS EATS and BROOKLYN EXPOSED!

Thank you, Brooklyn Takedownerz. You’re the besto.   Here they are, in all their glory…>>>> Continue reading →

SOLD OUT!

The Chili Takedown means never having to say you’re sorry for plundering the earth with chili. Never looking over your shoulder to see if you burned the wrong village. Never regretting 10 years of expanding people’s minds with a can opener, explaining that there are, nor never ever should be rules in chili.

That’s right!!!!!  10 whole years of partying so hard with America’s favorite pot of hatred!!!! Let’s celebrate that November 18, 2PM at The Bell House!!! You are tasked with eating 30 chilis, all from mostly veteran local takedownerz, to vote on the Most Important.

(This time, I, Matt Timms am on the poster. As if if I am a god. Truly, I am the very embodiment of chili, and it’s potentiality.  Thank you to artist Aaron Augenblick of Augenblick Studios, for making me as a dreadful chili monolith with powers!!!)

T SHIRTS WILL BE AVAILABLE!!!! GET YOURS THERE!!!!!!!

Want to try all the chili? Tickets HERE!!!

Prizes sponsored by:

Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

$500 Grand Prize!

The Chicago Film Fest is happening, and of course The Avocado Takedown will be there, in homage to this, the most raddest vegetable… In the midst of all the movies, beautiful people and goodness, the Chicago Avocado Takedown swings its warhammer, smashing your taste buds, splattering your brains all over the campus of Kendall College!!!

NOVEMBER 17 1PM-3PM at Kendall College!

CALL FOR COOKS!  FREE TO COMPETE! I HAVE 7 SPOTS LEFT (OUT OF 20)! I will give any worthy home cooks A FREE CASE OF AVOCADOS to make WHATEVER WITH!!!! (just no guacamole!!! Think outside the boxosaurus, for real!) In cities like Los Angeles, Denver and Houston, we’ve seen vegetable warriors making cocktails, pudding, jams… pretty much everything.

November 17, noon! Want to come eat all the recipes? TICKETS UP SOON!

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Portion of procedes benefit Women’s Education Project!

15 awesome chili recipes!!! Vote on the most bestest!!!! The Takedown burns into the roots of my hometown with chili!!!!!

November 10, 6:30PM at The Fitchburg Art Museum!!!! All part of the Night in the Museum party, celebrating 40 years of my old man Director Peter Timms’ leadership- as you test the capacity of your stomach lining and vote in Fitchburg’s finest chili champion!!! Vote on the finest local chilis! 15 local cooks bring their finest gallons of lava and you’ll try every one… NO RULES!  Meat, veg, pork, chicken, red, verde chilis all welcome!!!

Tickets at the door! ($20/$25)

Email jgoodrow@fitchburgartmuseum.org to enter your chili!  Free to enter!  Compete for cookware from Anolon, Wusthof and Microplane!!!

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